COEUR d'ALENE — After both prosecution and defense presented their closing arguments in a packed courtroom Wednesday, Judge Fred Gibler gave the jury its final instructions.

After three weeks of observing evidence and testimony in the Heather Crawford murder trial, jurors were given the OK to deliberate.

Now the waiting begins.

Crawford is charged with first-degree murder in the August 2014 death of 22-month-old Ezra Wilson, the daughter of Crawford’s former live-in ex-boyfriend, Hiram Wilson. The 28-year-old woman allegedly suffocated the child in the couple's Kingston home.

Because Shoshone County couldn't establish an impartial jury, the trial is being held in Kootenai County with Coeur d'Alene-area jurors.

Crawford claims she woke up to a cold breeze the evening Ezra died, then realized the child wasn't in her playpen. When she walked into the bathroom, she claims to have seen the words "murder scumbag daughter" written on the mirror before waking Hiram Wilson and finding the tucked-in child in a small bed, unresponsive.

Both prosecuting attorney Keisha Oxendine and defense lawyer Anne Taylor presented one-hour closing arguments using PowerPoint presentations.

Autopsy photos of the child were viewed during the prosecutions's presentation.

Oxendine detailed numerous inconsistencies in Crawford's interviews with police and offered a motive Crawford had to kill Ezra. The prosecutor also pointed to how Crawford said she wanted to commit suicide following the child's death.

Oxendine also noted Crawford, who has three children of her own, refused DNA testing that would have likely provided DNA of the killer.

"As the investigation continued, and law enforcement went down numerous trails, all of those trails led back to the defendant," Oxendine said. "Ezra Wilson was a happy, healthy child when she went to bed that night. She wasn't sick. No sign of natural causes, consistent with suffocation, consistent with smothering."

Oxendine continued, "Ezra Wilson was the one thing that stood in the way of the defendant's fairytale life with Hiram Wilson. She was the connection to (Ezra's mother and Hiram's ex-wife) Naomi Bywaters, and all the custody stuff you've heard about. (Ezra) was the child (Hiram) had when he was in that relationship. When Ezra was standing in the way of her fairytale life with Hiram, (Crawford) took matters into her own hands, and after she took matters into her own hands, she wiped the child's cheek, tucked her into bed and she began the story that led to law enforcement investigating, collecting evidence and ultimately leading back to her."

The defense, however, stressed Crawford loved Ezra as if she was a child of her own and pointed to a bias by investigators.

Defense lawyer Taylor said she couldn't understand why Hiram Wilson was never thoroughly looked at as a possible suspect, considering a past that includes two counts of accessory to murder in the 2008 Dobson Pass double homicide.

Wilson, the son of former Pinehurst Police Chief Rocky Wilson, was sentenced to just two years in prison after testifying against a co-defendant.

Interestingly, former Idaho State Police Det. Charlie Greear — Hiram Wilson's godfather — was a detective in both the Dobson Pass and Crawford cases.

Taylor again brought up how acquaintance Travis Quimby — who sent a Facebook message to Crawford noting Hiram's daughter deserved the same fate as the Dobson Pass victims — wasn't thoroughly questioned.

Earlier this week the defense used an expert witness, a Minnesota-based pediatric forensic pathologist, who believes Ezra died of Sudden Unexpected Unexplained Death in Infancy.

"Heather did not kill that child. She loved that child. The state has not produced enough evidence to have her convicted beyond a reasonable doubt," Taylor said. "They tried. They interviewed all the people she was locked up with in jail, looking for a statement. They didn't get one, because Heather didn't do this.”

Jury deliberations will continue today.